'Being Human' stars 'didn't watch original'

The stars of Syfy's Being Human have insisted that the series will be "very different" to the BBC version.

In an official Syfy interview, Sam Huntington (Josh) revealed that the cast had been advised to avoid the original show.

"We were all instructed to not watch too much of the BBC series because they didn't want it to affect our performance," he admitted. "Our show tonally is very different. The look of the show is different. We branch out and dive into the back-stories of the characters a lot more."

He continued: "The vampire lore is [also] really more investigated in our show. I think as the season progresses we're going to really be our own self-contained entity."

His co-star Sam Witwer added that he was keen to avoid comparisons with his counterpart Aidan Turner.

"I watched one episode [of the original] and I thought what they were doing was fantastic," he said. "I was really enjoying it, but I didn't want to unintentionally mimic anything that Aidan had done."

The former Smallville star suggested that the BBC series could benefit from the new remake.

"We owe them a debt of gratitude," he said. "It's my hope that we develop an audience that we can pass off to them, because they deserve it."